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Prosecutors seek eight years for former Banten governor
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Former Banten governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah walks to a chair in the Jakarta Corruption Court on June 16. The prosecutors are seeking an eight-year prison term for Atut for her alleged role in graft invovling the procurement of medical equipment in 2012. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak)
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rosecutors at the Jakarta Corruption Court are demanding a panel of judges sentence former Banten governor Atut Chosiyah to eight years imprisonment for her alleged role in graft involving the procurement of medical equipment in Banten.
The prosecutors are also demanding Atut be required to pay a Rp 250 million (US$18,797) fine.
“We ask the panel of judges to declare the defendant guilty of committing corruption,” prosecutor Budi Nugraha told the court on Friday.
The team of prosecutors argued that Atut’s involvement in the case had cost the state Rp 79.7 billion.
Atut was accused of having rigged the budget for the health agency of the province in the 2012 Regional Budget and 2012 Revised Regional Budget. Moreover, the prosecutors also suspected her of having arranged the budget allocation for the procurement of medical equipment.
Atut was alleged to favored certain parties to be partners of the health agency.
In this case, Atut was indicted along with her younger brother Tubagus Chaeri Wardana aka Wawan who was accused of controlling the budget and the procurement process by appointing the companies for the project.
Atut has been sentenced to seven years in prison in 2015 for bribing then Constitutional Court chief justice Akil Mochtar over an election dispute in Banten. (rin)
